probably has everything except ratcheting as i haven’t done a pull request for that feature yet. i can submit that over the weekend and hopefully we can keep new Ansible developments relatively unfragmented.

one page per independent pattern/voice, with the advantage of knowing which voice is being controlled by a dedicated cv/gate-out pair. plus it would allow for portamento/note slew per voice, like the original monophonic earthsea implementation.

it’s what elektron does with the analog4, where you have four independent oscillators, with different pattern entry pages for each. you can program them to simulate polyphonic phrases, or just use them to create individual unique melodies and counterpoint, with their own parameter locks etc. forming a four-track song.

i’m going to say this unfortunately exceeds how much time i can dedicate to it. a multi page UI would be a major feature.

but: i will try to add settings for max number of voices for pattern and live play (so, you could make a mono pattern playing as voice 1 and then play live on top of it using voices 2&3, for instance).

overdub: was already thinking about adding it. will see if i can do it quickly, might have to be something for next version.

Personally, I think that seeing all the voices at once is fine. Overdub could just be a button that you activate and the mode would let you add to your existing pattern, no need for extra pages. Also, an undo of the last pass would be nice, but I’m not sure how complex that is.

it would be a pretty major effort. it’s basically programming four independent tape loops, with all their beautiful phasing against each other at different playback speeds–to me, that’s the real advantage of an ansible port; four monophonic earthseas in just one module. definitely a tricky thing to solve. i might dig through the code for mp/kria; see how their page system is implemented. maybe the three bottom-left buttons could be used as page switches…

exactly, i don’t think elektron allows you to have arbitrary intervals and pattern length per voice…

this can be done in a much easier manner. i could add the ability to play multiple patterns at once. then you specify voice allocation for each pattern. if they share a voice they’ll steal from each other when needed, if not they can play simultaneously.

forgot to mention, i’m also planning to make double speed non destructive (and i should also mention i’m not planning on porting new features to original ES).

when using runes, or any other setting to play patterns at slower speeds, the note held length gets dragged out, so even quick button presses become long drones, which may be undesirable. being able to shorten that up by adjusting gate length is critical.

i’ve been thinking about this, and i’d like to propose a couple of things. first, instead of double speed / half speed how about more gradual adjustments? say, increasing/decreasing by 25%. another option: having 2 sets of runes for speed, coarse / fine. as mentioned earlier i’m also planning to make these non destructive, so if you increase and then decrease speed you won’t lose precision.

another thing i could do is add an option to keep note lengths intact when changing speed. this would be in addition to changing note length proportionally - sometimes i think you’d want the latter.

this doesn’t mean there won’t be edge modes anymore - as a matter of fact i think it would be useful to have the option to apply the current edge setting to all notes in a pattern. actually, it could even be an option to adjust length for all notes by a specified amount (similarly to speed) but i don’t want to overcomplicate the user interface. perhaps this could be added as a new edge mode? so, you’d have original note length / fixed with specified time / shortened or lengthened by specified amount / drone.

what does everybody think of losing the top row for playing and instead making it a jump to “position” mlr style? together with the ability to define a loop. @michael_matos@shellfritsch is this what you guys had in mind?

you made this dream of mine come true. So wonderful. I spent a good long time today playing the shit out of ansible/earthsea (might i suggest Æarthsea as a name variation?)

i’m not sure if it would be a total pain in the ass thing but I have found myself really wanting an octave up/down transposition control. I wonder if that could fit on the page with the speed control stuff?